Digital Primary Care update: New GPC chair and more

Join Andy and Gandhi for your digital primary care update on the new GPC chair, challenges to General Practice, using MS Teams better in the NHS and more.

New GPC Chair - Welcome

Dr Farah Jameel – First Female GPC Chair
“Reset the relationship” message
GPC’s executive team, chair of Camden LMC.
Lets explore the role of the GPC
What’s currently in the air for them and the profession and what are & should be the priorities going forward
What would be your priorities for the GOC?


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But first….

What is the GPC?    • General Practice: A complete guide to...  
What is the role of the BMA for that matter?
What has the GPC ever done for us??


Dr Farah Jameel – First Female GPC Chair

Background: https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/bre...

She became the youngest negotiator on the BMA GP Committee’s England executive team when she was appointed in 2017 at the age of 34 and was one of the four executive team members of the GPC who negotiated the landmark five-year contract.

She has been leading on workload issues for the GPC, including changes to the NHS standard contract to prevent secondary care from dumping workload on general practice.

As a member of the executive team, she supported work on IT, leading on the BMA’s successful campaign to delay the controversial ‘General Practice Data for Planning and Research’ scheme, labelled a ‘data grab’ by campaigners.

Dr Jameel has also supported the GPC’s clinical and prescribing policy group, where she turned her attention to issues such as how referral management systems are rejecting GP referrals following an outcry from GPs on social media.

She was previously a council member at Medical Women’s Federation, deputy chair of the BMA’s Equality and Inclusion Committee and a national executive member of the British International Doctor’s Association.

She is also former Chair of the South Thames Regional Junior Doctors Committee in 2012 and was a member of the British Medical Association’s UK Junior Doctors Committee between 2010 to 2014. She has been involved in medical politics since 2009.




In tray:



Response to the NHS England plan


Indicative ballot: https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/bre...
Pulse understands that five options on the ballot, which is only accessible to BMA members, including:

Withdrawal from the PCN DES at the next opt-out period, which is not a breach of contract;
Disengage from the PCN DES before the next opt-out period, which is a breach of contract;
Refusal to comply with the contractual requirement for ensure GPs declare earnings over £150,000 per year;
Refusal to comply with the contractual requirement to provide Covid exemption certificates;
Participate in a ‘coordinated and continuous change to your appointment book’, to affect the quality of the data NHS England are looking to collect .


Prospective access to patient records - calls for delay


Recent “victories”
£150K earning publication


The future of PCNs


Contract negotiations


Workload issues